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hey family i’m pastor torre
i’m pastor sarah and listen you’re
getting ready to hear an incredible word
for the lord i believe it’s going to
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i believe it’s going to be timely do me
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god bless you well i’m excited it’s word
time
anybody excited for the word of god it’s
a lamp into our feet it’s a light into
our path and
you know i was thinking as we were
worshiping i am so glad to be a part of
god’s family
aren’t you glad to be a part of the
family of god aren’t you glad that you
are not
subject to things of the earth you’re
not subject to
to to the laws of man and and aren’t you
glad that you’re
a part of a royal priesthood a divine
family you’re partakers of the divine
nature as the scripture puts it
which means that we’ve got so much going
for us we’ve got so much behind us
and when you align your life with god
and the purposes of god
all of heaven’s resources back you up
and i just believe that i want to talk
to somebody who’s called and i want to
talk to somebody who is committed to the
lord i want to talk to somebody
who’s laid down their life i want to
tell you right now that heaven knows
your name
i feel that and you might be frustrated
and you’re trying to get your influence
up and you’re trying to do this but here
is the thing
the most important community to know
your name
is the community of heaven i’m telling
you and i just thank god in fact if you
know heaven knows your name just put it
right there in the comments
heaven knows my name come on come on
where are my people who love god where
are my people
who are sold out for the things of god
where are my people who have paid the
price
that you have laid your life down for
the things of god
because you have tasted and you have
seen that god is good
and there’s nobody like him if that’s
you put it in the comments there’s
nobody like god hallelujah
and you’re seen and you’re known
and you’re loved in the heavenly places
and every once in a while if you will
listen
you will hear the great cloud of
witnesses cheering you on
every once in a while if you will pause
and get into the presence of god and
listen
you’ll hear those who have gone ahead of
you saying run your race
do that thing don’t stop you’re almost
there
and i want to be that voice to you right
now in this moment do your thing
run your race don’t you stop
because god knows the plans he has for
you i’m excited i’m excited to continue
in the series that we started last week
the series called
starting over and and i always like to
do a little bit of a
recap and and i gave you some homework
last week we prayed that you were good
students
uh and uh we’re gonna see in a minute
but we were looking at
haggai the second chapter in the ninth
verse
and it reads the glory of this latter
temple shall be greater than the former
says the lord of hosts and in this place
i will give peace in this
place i feel that is a prophetic promise
for america that is a prophetic promise
for the world in this place i will give
peace
says the lord of hosts we’ll get into
that
and as i mentioned last week i believe
that we are in a time of rebuilding
and and i believe that that god has has
called you and i
to be a part of the new thing that he is
building and i believe that the new
thing that he is building
is not equal to the former thing as the
scripture says
the latter is going to be greater than
the former
and i talked about last week how in
order to do so
because there’s so many crazy things
that are happening in our world we’re
going to have to navigate
the mourning of what was and the morning
of things
being normal or the way they used to be
with the excitement about the future
because they’re going to be moments
where you’re going to have a longing for
yesterday
and you’re going to have to navigate
that and you have to balance that and be
more committed to the excitement about
what god has in store for us tomorrow
are you tracking with me
i’m just giving you a little bit of
recap for for from where we were
last week and i also believe that that
in this moment in the season we’re going
to have to seize
we’re going to have to seize
opportunities that are out there
see when you whenever you see
instability whenever you see things that
are out of balance
there’s always an opportunity god is
asking the question
who can i send who will stand up who
will rise up watch this
who will step into position during times
like this
and so we talked about that this is not
the time to be timid
this is not the time to be
procrastinating
there are spots to be filled and i
believe
that god is calling his sons and his
daughters who carry his heart
his mission his purpose to fill those
spots i feel that
there’s a spot for you just do me a
favor put it right there in the in the
feed and just say there’s a spot for me
there’s a spot for me prophesy to your
own self right now there’s a spot for me
there’s a spot
for me and the spot for you
is bigger than you i believe that what
god is building
in this season as he’s building temples
even that’s what haggai
is referring to he’s referring to the
rebuilding of the temple a bigger and
better temple the
former temple had been destroyed because
of misalignment and i believe that we’re
called to build temples i talked about
last week we’re called to build two
temples
god’s temple we’re excited about
building god’s kingdom and then at the
same time i believe that god’s going to
be building our temple and as we build
our temple
as we become more whole as we begin to
look more
like what god ordained for us to look
like
we’re going to reflect the glory of
god’s temple better there’s so much
that if you weren’t here last week i i
encourage you to go back
go back to last week and listen to this
because we got a lot of ground to cover
and there’s some things that i want to
talk to you about today and i’m going to
be very vulnerable
and transparent as i actually go through
those eight questions that i put on you
i’m going to give you some of my answers
because i believe there’s something to
understand there but it’s also i believe
going to help you to to do your answers
to answer those reflection questions
that we’re talking about
and as i mentioned last week i believe
that god is building a leaner and more
effective and
impactful church i believe that with all
of my heart i believe that he’s also
building a leaner and more aligned you
this is what god is doing we’re
recapping
we’re recapping but before we can
run on and do what we believe that god
has called us to do
what we were called to do last week was
to reflect
was to have a time of reflection and as
i mentioned last week you know
it’s not wise to just run out in a new
thing because just because you’re
running
doesn’t mean you’re going anywhere and
so we talked about the importance of
reflection we need to reflect because
reflection is the doorway to perspective
and and we need perspective moving
forward and i believe that
that the former season was designed to
give us
a a better perspective about those
things that are to come
and here is the thing if we don’t take
time
to reflect we will keep repeating the
same class
over and over and over again
we’ll be in the classroom but not
learning isn’t that something did you
know that you can
can have a learning experience or be in
a learning environment but not learn and
i believe that 2020 and
and and i believe even now coming into
2021 and this and for you maybe it was
the past decade of your life
it was a classroom but not everyone in
the classroom passes not everyone in the
classroom
graduates you have to be present you
have to reflect you have to learn and
that’s why
i believe before we do anything before
we did anything before we step
boldly into 2021 i believe that it was
advantageous that it was critical for
you and i
to take time and to reflect
and so last week i gave you eight
reflection questions
and the reason why i did that is because
i believe that i knew as i
sought the lord i believed that if you
were
to dig into these questions you would
come out of these questions with
perspective
with a new perspective and i believe
some clarity in fact today’s
installment of the series starting over
is the power
of clarity and so what i want to do is i
want to bring you into
my experience i wasn’t going to give you
a homework assignment and i didn’t do it
myself
and so i want to bring you into my head
and to my heart and to my journal and to
my experience
as i took these eight questions and
begin to reflect and i believe that
there’s going to be
something in it for you thank you so
much for playing and so let’s dig
right into it i want to let you into my
journey
you’re coming into pt’s head so
what were the questions there were eight
questions what did i learn what did i
gain
what did i lose what did i love and did
it love me back
where did i find personal value and was
it healthy
what were my priorities and were they
profitable
who am i now and then
what do i need to do daily to maintain
that identity to live out that destiny
so
so uh what did i learn
and maybe our answers would be similar
maybe there will be a line what did i
learn
i learned that god can provide for
sustain and prosper me
in any season and say it again
i learned a lot of things but let me but
this is one of the biggest things that
i’ve learned
i learned that our god can provide for
me
can sustain me and prosper me
in any season this is such a valuable
lesson
we serve a god who is not restricted by
circumstances somebody needs to know
that
that god can put his favor on you in the
middle of the famine
that he can protect you in the midst of
a protest
that god can cover you that he can
prosper you that he can
advance you in a time of great
disadvantage
this is what i learned about god i
learned that god
operates outside of my feelings i
learned that god operates outside of my
circumstances
i learned that god is so much i feel
that and that’s why there might be
someone watching right now
and and you’re going through some things
and everything
outside of you looks like it’s bigger
than you there’s nothing around you
that looks like it is it is dovetailing
into what god promised you and i hear
god saying that i am getting ready
to show you that i cannot be limited by
circumstance
i want to teach you i want to teach you
how to praise me
in the difficult times i want to teach
you how to find
joy even in the midst of sorrow because
i will do
what i say i’m going to do and there is
no devil there is no struggle
there is no opposition there is no bad
leader
there is nobody nothing no one that can
stop me
when i have determined to bless you if
that’s your word put it there in the
comments that’s for me pt
i receive it i learned that thing
because god wants to to he wants to
to have us come off of the emotional
rollercoaster
that is predicated by circumstance
you’re up one day you’re down the next
you’re full of faith one day man you
don’t know if you’re going to make it
the next god
wants to stabilize you and stabilize me
and oftentimes in order to get us to
that place of stability
he has to allow the storms to come he
has to allow the winds to blow
he has to allow the hurricane so that he
can show you
that you’re built to last do me a favor
put it right there in the comments
i’m built to last baby
and so i learned that about god i
learned that god
can can can can
bring forth water out of a rock
i learned that that god can produce
manna
from heaven i learn that that i am not
sustained by circumstance
i learned that i’m sustained by god and
his word over my life
somebody needs to hear that so that’s
the biggest thing that i learned
second question is your question too is
what did i gain and i had to think about
that what did i gain
and although i gained a lot the biggest
thing that i gained
was an appreciation for the things that
matter
most come on that’s some of your
testimony as well
some of you you’re in the same position
didn’t you gain an appreciation for the
things that matter most
it’s interesting for me things that
formerly matter more
now matter less and things that
formerly mattered less now matter
more so i gained perspective
there are things that that were my
everything there were things
activities and various things and and
even relationships and dynamics that i
felt like yo
these things i really really need and i
realize see god got me
down to bare bones when you get down to
bare bones you realize what’s important
you realize what matters most and you
realize that oftentimes the things that
matter the least
are the things that you give the
greatest attention to are you tracking
with me
but i know you learned that too what did
i lose that was a good one what did i
lose i had to think about that
i think i lost what most people lost i
lost normal
normal went bye-bye i was thinking about
that what i lose i lost normal
i lost a friend but but i gained a
witness
what do you mean by that no i lost a
friend and i lost the way that i connect
with the particular friend but now i
connect with that friend
in a different way that the relationship
now is
has been fully and completely sanctified
it’s a divine relationship now it’s
amazing and i won’t get into that
because
that’s my story but but i i did lose a
friend i lost normal
and here’s something that’s interesting
that i lost and i think this isn’t this
is really important and i think it
it it may speak to you deeply i lost i
lost
what i would have never willingly
surrendered
oh god i feel like preaching and
teaching
in in this season i believe
that this is true for many of us god
allowed us to lose
something that had to go or things that
had to go that we
would not have been willing to surrender
i would not have signed up for 2020.
and yet there were some things in 2020
that could not remain the same
watch this and i fulfill my calling my
purpose and my destiny
oh god there are things that that
see one of the reasons why god has to
allow things to shake up
in our lives and oftentimes for those
things to be removed
is because there are things that we are
unwilling
unwilling to let go and it’s not that we
are aware of those things
and make a conscious decision to not
relinquish those things
there are things that are just a part of
the rhythm of who we are things that we
don’t even know
that cannot go with us cannot fit our
future cannot fit our destiny and so god
oftentimes causes us to lose things
that we would not be willing to lose a
surrender on our own
if you track a let me just put it in the
comments if you track them do you
understand what i’m saying say i i get
what you’re saying i get what you’re
saying pt
see see god loves you so much watch this
that that he will sacrifice things on
the altar for you
you you won’t do it because because you
can’t see life without it
you won’t do it because your identity
you have established yours your own
identity in these particular things that
that must go and so god says no no no
you don’t know who you are you got to
remember
before i formed you in your mother’s
womb i knew you
that means that god knows of you that
you don’t know
that means that god and not only does
god know the you that you don’t know but
god knows the environment
that will manifest and produce that you
and so we’re operating blindly
many times and as a result of that
blindness we won’t give up any we won’t
give up things we won’t make the moves i
feel this we are creatures of habit
we are creatures of the familiar we like
things to be
where where we put them last but god is
saying
i am doing a new thing with you i’m
doing a new thing with the nation
i’m doing a new thing with the earth and
with the world and i need you
sometimes to trust me when i take
something from you
because there are spots in your life
you’ve only got so many places in your
life you’ve only got so many
opportunities
in your life and sometimes when i need
to move in your life
and sometimes when i need to do
something that is bigger than your
perspective
i’ve got to cause you to lose something
if you understand what i’m saying put it
in the feed right now
i get what you’re saying bt i get what
you’re saying pt and i also hear the
lord saying
it’s time for you to have a funeral see
the wonderful thing about a funeral
and and you know it’s not the most fun
thing i understand it but in the funeral
you are there to say goodbye
and i feel the holy ghost there are some
of you and you’re trying to bring what
you lost
back into the present and god is saying
let it go let it go
let it go you got to say may the lord
bless and keep you
may he make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious towards you
may he lift up his countenance over you
some of you are going to have to say
goodbye
to the things that god has said goodbye
because as long as you’re mourning for
the past
you cannot get excited about the future
i don’t know who i am talking to
on today but i’m telling you you have
got to have
a funeral you need to bury that thing
once and for all and step into
everything that god has for you are you
hearing what i’m saying
are you hearing the words that are
coming out of my mouth
because when you say goodbye your
future’s gonna say hello
and things are gonna open up for you
unlike ever before
if that’s your word hit me up in the
comments right now
[Music]
hallelujah
i feel the lord
what did i lose i lost normal
but i’m so much better because of it
i lost normal watch watch this watch
this what
this might be hard to grasp but hear
what i’m saying here what i’m saying
normal wasn’t good enough for you
yeah uh pt you know that’s in you’re
being insensitive
you know what i just i can’t believe you
said that i just i just want to get paid
everything has just been upside down
since i hear you
but i believe that in the process of
time
life is going to prove to you that what
you
used to call normal was not fit
for your future and if you would receive
that by faith right now
and you would take what has been left
and you would get a revelation
and you would say okay god i trust you
i’m not dead which means that there’s
more for me
and this is what i have left and i’m
gonna stop mourning over what was
and i’m gonna get excited about what i
have left
and all of a sudden my creativity is
going to come alive because when i’m
mourning for yesterday i can’t
i can’t see clearly my my eyes are too
watered
to see clearly and when i stop mourning
for that i’m going to look at what’s in
my hand
and the holy spirit is going to breathe
fresh creativity and you’re going to
build something that was so much greater
than what you praised in the past
what did i lose i lost normal
what did i love and didn’t love me back
i’m just letting you into my journal
i uh i chose me
in 2020 yeah i i i loved i decided to
lose my
to love myself a little bit i got into
motorcycling
yeah tt to motorcyclist
and and i’ve had a blast
and it it loved me back yeah what was
your new love
so you’re going to go through these
things too but what was what did you
decide to love
this year and did it love you back
i i loved me a little better i carved
out a little piece of
of life for me and i think it’s blessed
me
in every other era what did i learn what
did i what did i gain what did i lose
what did i love
where did i find value and was it
healthy can i let you into my journal is
that okay
i’ll let you into my process and we got
some some we got ground to cover but i
won’t let you into this process
and so where did i find value
was it healthy um we’ll decide together
um i found value in
and this is where i typically find value
in being
a provider you know from a family a
protector
a leader uh and an executor what i mean
by being an executor
just someone who gets stuff done someone
who sets a vision someone sets goals
and where i find my value is in those
things being accomplished
and uh and so to a certain degree this
meant that i found my value
in my character which is a great thing
was it healthy
it was a great thing but there is a i’m
still
digging a thought out as it relates to
this
a lot of what i describe provider
protector leader executor a lot of those
things had to do with
what i do they’re do based
things and so
character is about being but a lot of
those things are qualified by what i do
and so i’m i’m really
i believe that it’s healthy but i’m
digging into that more
because we don’t ever want the our
highest sense of value to be based upon
what we
do and so i have to be careful to make
certain that
that my value system is not based on
performance because the perfect way
the the absolutely perfect way to find
your value is in that you are loved
that you’re loved because one thing i
learned about god is that is that god
reveals value by what god loves
right and that’s why to experience to
truly experience the love of god
is to truly begin to love yourself
because if
god who is perfect
loves me and values me then how could i
not value myself
god is not loving me and valuing me
ignorantly he’s loving me and valuing me
with with with supreme intelligence and
so what god
loves is what we should value and so
so although i think that you know and
i’m talking about as i looked at what i
valued or where i found value last year
although
although those things were meredith’s
i’m still very careful i have to be
careful
that that um that the highest value for
myself is not
based on me providing and being a
protector and being a leader and being
you know
a boss that gets stuff done but
ultimately first and foremost
it is that god loves me and because god
loves me and i know that god loves me
then that and that alone if i did
nothing else if i were able to provide
if i weren’t able to protect
if i weren’t able to lead if i weren’t
able
to do any of those things to execute to
make things happen and all those things
happen this year
right i have to also make certain that
if none of those things took place
i would still find value and worth
simply in knowing that god loves me are
you tracking with me
i’m just letting you into my journey
okay
and number six what were my priorities
and were they profitable for me my
priorities as i mentioned
2020 i prioritize self i prioritize
family the ministry
and especially because of what was going
on i prioritized the hurting
and were they profitable absolutely i
mentioned
you know taking time for me was a
blessing my
family and i marriage everything grew
even closer than i
even thought it could be the ministry
has done
exceptionally well we pivoted well we
established new things
we’re being a blessing and the hurting
we were able to do
um just exponentially awesome
exponentially
more than we did before awesome things
in the lives of others so
yeah i prioritized properly and it was
profitable i feel good about that and
there’s going to be more of that
as we continue to build bridges in 2020
in 2021 rather
and then this is a serious question who
am i now and uh
and i’m just going to tell you maya i’m
not going to get into that because it’s
really personal but but
you have to know who you are and i’m
going to talk about why that’s important
in just a second
but toure that’s who i am to ray the son
of god
and and i’m called to be a light to my
wife my children
and to all that i encounter and then
beyond that
i am this is me an anointed architect
of creation structures and systems that
produce good things
and most importantly god things so
that’s who i am and then this last
question
what do i need to do daily to maintain
that identity and live
out that destiny of course i wrote that
out for myself i have a daily thing that
maybe i’ll let you in on next week but
i think that question number eight is
specific to your
identity and so we’ll skip that for now
and i want us to
really understand what was going on with
these questions
um these particular questions were
designed to watch this
to define you they were designed to
define you
with intentionality and shape you
watch this so that you have context
in every second of this new season
why did i make you go through this
exercise and why did i put myself
through it i put myself through it
because i don’t want you to step into
this new season without intentionality
but i want you to have context
for every second in the season
and the biggest question on that list
if you didn’t do any of the other
questions but you only did one the
biggest question on that list
is who am i now
who am i now
talking about identity now why is that
important
why is identity important why do i need
to answer
the question who am i now and what do
you mean by who am i now
well let me back up for a second who am
i now
has to do with who am i
based on what i learned based on what i
experienced
i’m not the same person i was
when i entered into last year
i had a set of experiences
learnings trials triumphs
all these sort of things i had a lot
going on and all of those
things are part of the shaping of who
you
are and and i’m not asking you who you
are or who you were two years ago you
and i
have to perpetually ask ourselves the
question
who am i
now and if you
are not able to define that for yourself
then life will define it for you and
that’s not good
there’s so many things that are
vying to define you the
definition of who you are is the most
important thing that you and i can ever
know
who am i for real
because your identity
determines everything if you’re taking
notes i want you to write this down
your identity is the portal
through which you enter life
oh god i feel it your identity
is the poor tool through which you enter
life
it is who you show up
in life as
how i see myself determines how i
show up in life and that’s why and you
have an identity
and that’s why it behooves you and i to
take control
over the narrative of that identity
less that which is lesser beat us to the
punch
because there are things out there and
there’s circumstances and situations
out there that are aiming to define
you don’t you realize how significant
and how important it is to be
self-defined
god i feel it are you tracking with me
you have to take you have to be able to
answer that question
who are you are you tracking with me
and you need to know who you are so
succinctly
that if anyone asks you who you are you
can easily say
boom oh i am this
can we go further because if you
cannot do that watch this then someone
is going to put an identity on you
and life is going to put an identity on
you
and your surroundings will try to put an
identity on you
no the number one question that you have
to answer
is who am
i now
are you tracking with me and i believe
that those questions are going to help
you to
get there and then watch this
then once you have established yourself
and your specific identity the next
thing that you must do
is see yourself as an investor
towards that identity that has been
revealed
oh god can i teach today i want to
really
let me help you to understand my heart
for this series
i don’t want to preach you up
necessarily i want to change you
i want to give you tools that you can
use because i believe that this is such
an important time in the earth and i
don’t want you to just be
you know just going with the flow and
going with the crowd i truly believe
that some who were the tails are getting
ready to be the heads
but it’s going to necessitate a
sensitivity to the spirit
a sensitivity to truth to sensitivity to
timing unlike ever before
and you’ve got to know who you are
because they’re going to be so much
noise coming at you and there’s going to
be so many voices coming at you
and i’m trying to raise up some great
people i’m not trying to raise up some
christians who are just saying play the
same thing
in the crowd same place i’m trying to
raise up some world changers
i’m trying to raise up some people who
walk in a mighty anointing i’m trying to
raise up
some people who have their feet on the
ground but their heads in the heavens
i’m trying to raise up some people who
are walking succinctly with god
and perfectly with god because now is
the time yeah
and so self-definition
is at the end it’s actually the
beginning it’s your starting point
and from there watch this you have to
invest
into the future of that identity and
here is the thing
your investment resources are limited
they’re limited and here’s a caveat i
just want to run alongside
you must be self-validated
and self-motivated in the identity
that god reveals to you man
i can stay right here a lot of ground
recovery but i want to hover right here
you got to know who you are
you and god have to work that thing out
when you are in the process
of asking those questions and seeking
those questions and analyzing the
answers
you and god gonna have to work out god
wants to show you who you truly are but
when that happens you have to understand
that you may not get
a lot a lot of external support
concerning that identity because here is
the truth let me just tell you the truth
i’m not gonna jive you let me tell you
the truth you won’t have many people
that fully see it i’m talking about your
identity
watch this because most people are late
to the party see
see most people they only go by fruit
but god goes by seed you know that
passive scripture
it says man looks at the outward
appearance what has
already happened it says but god
looks at the heart that seed that is
inward so when god is looking at you
he knows what he has created you to be
and he knows the heart that he’s given
to you
so he can define you not by what you
have done
but by what you will do and so you
cannot allow
your identity to be validated by those
who are outside of you
because they’re late to the party i feel
the holy ghost
i wasn’t anointed when the people said
to raise anointed
sarah wasn’t anointed when the people
said sarah was anointed
they were late to the party god knew it
before he put me in my mother’s womb
and so here is the thing you are gonna
have to be self-validated
you’re gonna have to be god-validated
you cannot allow
your validation to come from man to be
honest with you i don’t even trust man’s
validation
because if you look at what man is
validating some of it is
are you tracking with me and so and so
so god watch this
sees orchards where the undiscerning
only see an empty field
and so you cannot you cannot you cannot
be validated or base your validation
on those that are outside of you it has
to be what you and god have worked out
are you tracking with me
now as i mentioned your lit your
resources are limited
you have a limited amount of resources
to invest in the dream the vision
and the identity that god has given to
you because remember
knowing who you are is just the
beginning it’s your starting point it’s
how you show up
stepping into who you are necessitates
daily investments
now i’m gonna give you five things
five areas of resource
that that you have to invest in
and i’m gonna leave off one and i’m
gonna leave off money
and the reason why i’m leaving off money
is because although
money is extremely important
it is something that if you lose you can
get it back right
and some of the things on this list you
can’t so these things in my estimation
are actually more important than money
and and you have to pay attention to so
let’s just talk about
the resources that you and i have to
invest this is so important this is i’m
talking about 2021
i’m talking about how we have to move
how we have to operate how we have to
see
ourselves and we have to recognize our
resources
and these resources god will use to
produce and to manifest
who god says that we are and what we’re
called to do
but these are limited resources and if
you don’t manage these resources right
you will look up and 2021 looks like
2019.
and so the first
thing that you have to wisely manage and
wisely invest
is your attention and your focus
and your attention
and your focus i’ve said this often i’ll
say it again your
your intent your your attention is
expensive
corporations spend billions of dollars
simply to get your attention
everything is after your attention
everything is after your focus and i get
it
because if i can draw your focus
unto what i want you to be thinking
about
then instead of building who you are
you will build who i desire or what i
desire you to build are you tracking
with me
why do corporations pay top dollar for
your attention
because the person who has the attention
is the person who gets their vision
fulfilled
are you tracking with me so if i’m a
corporation
and my vision is to increase my margins
and to increase my bottom line to
increase my profits
by 28 right that’s my vision
and so in order for that to happen i
need you
to be looking at what i want you to look
at
and that’s why i think it’s interesting
it’s called pay attention
because people pay for attention and you
will pay
if you don’t manage your own attention
are you tracking with me
and so so what am i looking at every day
what am i what do i find myself randomly
doing here’s a challenge with the phone
this is one of the things that i run
into personally
with my cell phone is everything is on
it
so i can be on my cell phone getting
ready to to
write down a thought for a book that i’m
writing or something i’m producing or a
business negotiation that i’m in or what
have you
and i go and i grab my phone
to jot that thought down and there is a
text message there
oh let me see what this is or there’s an
email that pops up oh there’s some sort
of
notification that shows up and what just
happened what did i just lose
i just lost my attention so
it would behoove us to set aside
time can i talk to you like this it
would behoove us
to set aside time to do those things
those things are important
emails are important text messages are
important
uh maybe if you want to take a gander on
your your social media feed to get an
understanding
those things are important but but they
are not
to be those things that rob you of
attention so you have to schedule
time for those things and when it’s not
time for those things you have to some
sort of way
remove yourself from the possibility of
having your attention taken from you are
you tracking with me
because your attention is everything
right
the first resource that you have to
manage that you have to own and manage
is your attention the second one and man
this might be the most important one
it is your time now here is the thing
time is something that you don’t get
back
once it is gone it is gone
here right now check this out
every one of us have
seconds assigned to our lives
literally our lives right now can be
broken down to the sec
to seconds what i mean what that means
for is that there is going to come a
time in your life
where all you have is one second left
and then you’re gone so that means that
every second
is precious and so time
my time is my greatest resource
and i cannot you know i i gotta just
tell you like sometimes
like people talk slow and
i’m patient shall be patient but
if you ever see me nodding real fast
it’s because i think i pretty much have
an idea
of what you’re saying it might take you
a great amount of time
to express it but i can typically
perceive it in a shorter amount of time
so if you ever see me
because in my head i’m thinking time is
ticking time it’s taking time it’s
taking time it’s ticking are you
tracking with me
you you you can i would rather you waste
my money
than my time and so we have to value our
time doesn’t mean that you’re stingy
with your time you don’t give time
to things that matter the most but look
at it look at the qualifier you give
your time to things that matter the most
if you’re on social media for five hours
a day
not trying to cut nobody move on pt move
on pt i will i shall
show your attention your focus your time
i’m talking about
when you have clarity how powerful
it can be if you manage
that clear vision properly with your
attention
with your time and with your energy now
what i mean by your energy
i mean i mean i mean your spirit like
like your wind you’re
when i wake up in the morning
i’ve got a certain amount of energy for
the day
and i got to manage it
i can’t allow
negative stuff to consume my energy
i can’t allow i’ve only got a little bit
of
breath right when i give i’ve only got
and then
you know at a certain time i’m going to
bed
so every day there is wind
and there’s energy and there is strength
assigned to me for that day give us this
day
our daily bread so daily i have a
daily amount god doesn’t give me
everything for the year in one day
he gives me in that day everything i
need and that includes
energy creativity wind
breath and i recognize that so now as
someone
who recognizes that i got to be about my
father’s business
i have got to manage that energy i
cannot let somebody come in
and steal energy i cannot allow my
energy to be diverted because i
only have a certain amount to get
accomplished
in that day what i need to get
accomplished are you tracking with me
so you got to pay attention to what
you’re paying attention to
you got to pay attention to your time
you got to pay attention to your energy
now here’s one that’s kind of
interesting
you also have to manage your resource of
concern
of concern now this could almost feel
like unchristian because
you know shouldn’t you be concerned
about everything
after all wasn’t jesus
concerned about everything no
there are times if you study jesus in
the scripture there were times where
they would come to jesus
and say jesus jesus everyone is seeking
you let us stay here jesus would say
let us go into the next town it wasn’t
that he didn’t love the people that kind
of stuff
but he knew that he had to manage his
concern
because he had to be about his father’s
business and he had a
short amount of time to get it
accomplished you
have to learn how to manage what you
care about
oh i feel the spirit of god there’s a
book
i think is still on the new york times
bestsellers list
and it’s called the subtle art the
subtle art
of not caring they use a different kind
of you know
way of saying it and before you judge
that book think about it if you are
concerned about
everything you can get nothing
accomplished
so you got to learn how to all you know
i i wish that that weren’t happening
but i’m praying but i cannot watch this
here’s a phrase
i cannot allow someone else’s emergency
to become my crisis
every single time you have to learn
what is a crisis and what is not and so
you have to manage your concern
i don’t mean that you should uh forego
being
love-filled no we’re going to be loved
we’re going to love people but
everything is
not my concern i’ll pray about it
maybe i’ll write a check i’ll do
something but at the end of the day
i have to focus on what i am called to
focus on
i have to invest my time my energy
i have to invest all of that because
i’ve only there’s only one me and watch
this
i am not called to solve every problem
can i talk to you like this so we we
have to we have to
manage our attention we have to manage
our time we have to manage our energy
our spirit we have to manage our concern
and this is the one i’ll leave you on
you have to manage what i call
these our resources are pearls i’ve got
to manage my pearls
right there’s a passage of scripture
that talks about how not
casting your pearls before the swine
what i mean what what are your pearls
your pearls are your gifts
your talents and your anointing
i i don’t just just throw my gift
everywhere
i don’t just i don’t just my my wisdom
let me tell you something
and you know if i’m talking to you and
you cut me off
once i’ll let it slide if you come to me
for wisdom and advice
and i’m talking and i’m sharing wisdom
advice i’ve heard you
right because i’m empathetic i’m gonna
listen to you i’m gonna try to
understand
where you’re at and once but once i
start getting into wisdom
dispensing you’ve got about one time to
cut me off
because i’m not going to keep putting my
pearls
out before that which doesn’t matter and
here’s another thing
if i give you the wisdom you’ve only got
about one more time to come back to me
asking me the same question because i’m
not going to repeat myself
i’m careful about my pearls because
there is somebody
who is hungry and thirsty for the gift
for the talent
and the anointing and they’re not going
to to take what i said
and then run off and then come back you
know and need another session because
it’s almost like crack
no they’re gonna take what i said apply
it to their life
be prospered by their life and i am
committed
to not just be casting my pearls out
there randomly because i’ve only got a
certain amount of time a certain amount
of wisdom a certain amount
of energy to give
and if because you’re not willing to
listen
or because you’re not willing to learn
or because you’re not willing to apply
you cut me off and you shut me down
then i have to lovingly take my pearls
and take my my marbles and take my toys
put them in my pocket and move on until
i find somebody worthy
of who i am preachers this this is
something for preachers
you have to understand that
there will always be someone or some
people
assigned to your voice and
and you can’t make somebody
i want to say this right you can’t you
can’t force somebody
or force your anointing your grace your
special
into any and every environment i
remember when god called me to plant the
church
in north hollywood i didn’t i had no
idea why god was calling me to plant the
church in north hollywood churches in
south l.a
but i obeyed god right in fact and when
i was in south delhi the church
it it didn’t grow we were there for two
years and we grew to a whopping 30
people
okay and then god said planet in
north hollywood and i’m like okay i
don’t really understand why this makes
sense what’s there i don’t know
but when i got there guess what there
was a people
assigned to my voice and the church
started growing rapidly
just like that just like that
and you know i mean okay i’m sure i grew
a little bit in
my content i grew a little bit you know
my subject matter or whatever but in a
short period of time it wasn’t that
it was the reality that not everyone
is connected to your pearls
and that can be in ministry that can be
in a relationship
that can be in a in a communal setting
or whatever and you can’t be mad at it
right sometimes god has to show you
what’s not for you
to motivate you to get to what is for
you because when you are aligned with
what you’re supposed to do
in the places you’re supposed to do it
you’re going to see fruitfulness
both inwardly and outwardly are you
tracking with me
and so and so we’re talking about
investing
now that that that that i’ve discovered
who i am
now i have to invest in that and these
are the things these are the resources
that we that we invest with right and no
one
invests to not get a return
see see your vision being manifest is
your return
and that will happen if you manage these
things properly you’re going to get your
vision
manifest and
everything that you invest these things
in must
be connected they must be connected
to the vision so it all starts with the
vision who am i
who does god say that i am now before we
wrap this thing up
and i want to challenge you and i want
to give you another another exercise
is i do want to point out the chief
thief in your life
because there’s going to be a chief the
thief that that will try to
throw you off from these things that you
must invest and that chief
thief is distraction simply put is
distraction
distraction is witty
you gotta understand distraction makes
no announcements
saying hey i’m getting ready to distract
you here i come
i am distraction getting ready to
distract you you better watch out i’m
coming
no we don’t even realize that we’ve been
distracted until after the fact
oh man i got distracted when was the
last time most of the time you don’t see
distractions coming
you just look up and you’re like oh
shoot man i got distracted wow i spent
three hours here and i only meant to
spend five minutes here
etc right so distraction
is mostly realized in hindsight which
means that
you and i we must have a proactive
strategy for it and here is antidote if
you take notes write this down
the antidote to distraction
is a relentless focus
and commitment to the plan
say it again the antidote for
distraction
is a relentless focus and commitment to
the plan you got to be
like a like a like a guard dog
when it comes to the plan
you got to be like no i mean you have to
be so you have to be like
just just beyond committed
you have to and and do this lovingly
but you have to see this like i get mad
when distractions come
like when i’m trying to get something
done and all of a sudden
the phone starts ringing or all of a
sudden somebody’s buzzing at the door or
whatever
or all of a sudden something’s coming
across i realize what it is and i take
it personally
because you you’re standing in the way
of what i’m trying to produce and i
realize that i was created to birth
things
and i was created to produce things and
so you have to become i feel god
i’m trying to help somebody birth
something you have to be
relentless
relentlessly focused and committed to
the plan
now here’s your exercise for this week
we’re getting ready to pray in a second
i didn’t get into the eighth question
because the eighth question
is based on the seventh question
being who am i now
and when you can answer the question who
am i now what is my identity
then you can answer the eighth question
which is what do i need to do daily
to maintain that identity and live out
that destiny
and that’s what i want you to work on
this week i’m going to show you my daily
list next week
i want you to have a plan i i don’t want
family
we’re going to do this thing this year
we’re going to be
everything that god has called us to be
this year
we’re we’re going to walk in some you
didn’t go through the year that you went
through
and the season that you went through to
be the same
you you didn’t go through 2020 and shed
those tears
and have to adjust and contort and go
through all that kind of stuff and get
strength for nothing
the the worst thing that we can do in
2021
is not walk in what we have become
and it’s going to take focus and it’s
going to take
discipline and it’s going to take
intentionality
and you’ve got to have a plan and so
i want you to define what daily success
looks like for you
i want you to write out your identity
statement i read you mine
write it out and then
what will you do daily
to live out that life and that calling
anybody serious about about your life
family i i i want to just hype you up
i want you to have an understanding and
practical tools
destiny and purpose
being rich in god and rich in your
identity in the lord
that you don’t hype your way into that
you you create a winning system
for yourself you have to master you
because distraction is there and
issues are there you know i i didn’t
share it but but i’m gonna say it
you also see the reason why these
questions are important
is because you also have to be willing
to face the ugly
to face the ugly what did i love
and did it love me back where did i find
value
and let’s keep it 100. i didn’t go in
there saying hey i had
all this stuff together i said you know
what man i kind of found
value in you know and that i i can
provide for my family and
and that i protect my family and that i
get i get stuff done but
but i don’t know if that’s all the way
healthy
i’m digging into that more because what
if four seasons i wasn’t able to do it
does that mean that i don’t have value
is that the best place to find value
no i want you to face the ugly
and i also want you to face the
beautiful
and the beautiful is who god has created
you to be
and once we lock in on that
that i want us to think about man what
do i have to do
every single day to maintain that
because my identity
is the portal by which i enter life
as i mentioned before when you come up
with it it might seem big and
and maybe that people you share it with
and they laugh at you
but you got to remember most people on
the outside are late to the party
they only can recognize it at
manifestation which means that they’re
late
manifestation is just the evidence it’s
just the proof
of what was there but
it starts when you know it’s there are
you tracking with me i love you i want
to pray for you
the power of clarity i want you to get
clear
it’s a crazy season it’s a crazy time
so much talk and so many opinions and so
much going on
clarity is everything and so i want to
pray for you
and i believe that god’s going to bring
you into a time of clarity
and i believe that he’s going to give
you a strategy for that clarity
and he’s going to show you how to win
daily
father i thank you so much for your love
for your children
i thank you god for your hand that’s
upon their life i thank you for the
plans that you have for them
father i thank you that as you work
through these questions with them
as they take another pass maybe some
didn’t do it or some did or
but as they take another pass i thank
you that the question that they’ll be
able to
answer from all of it
is who they are now and then god give
them
strategy to show them how to structure
their lives
broken down to the day
to invest in that identity until they
see it come fully to fruition i thank
you
i bless them in jesus name
amen amen family i love you i’m praying
for you
we’re going to continue this next week
and i believe that god has given you
tools
that will sharpen you and you will be
beyond anything that you ever thought
possible
god loves you and so do i
you
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